Gwern Branwen wrote: > >> Is there any serious attempt to apply Science Fiction methods >> to Actuarial Science? >> >> It amazes me that Actuarial Science takes a cohort of people >> in their 20s and then projects their economical future until >> they die - which may happen 100 years from now. > > Not really following you here. I don't think it's amazing - I > think it works, as evidenced by the fact that the life insurance > is a viable business which at the very least shows that it's a > more rational model of calculating life spans than most people > use. > It (sort of) worked until now. There's no guarantee that the system will work forever.
> Are you referring to people like Aubrey de Grey and his SENS, or > the so-called actuarial escape velocity? > Never heard of them. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
